DAA News Network

Gallup has carried out surveys in 112 countries (2010) on perceptions of how receptive people feel their communities are to those with learning difficulties. More than half of adults (55%) who replied said the city or area where they live is a good p ...

A survey has shown that since the government launched its benefits reform disabled people have faced growing public antagonism.
A majority of those questioned reported that they experienced hostility, discrimination and physical attacks from stra ...

More than 25 years of the work of ADAPT, the militant arm of the disability rights movement in the US, is chronicled in a photo exhibition the opens this week at Chicago's Center for Independent Living.
...

A poll commissioned by disability charity Scope has shown that:
Nearly 40% of people (who are not disabled and do not have a disabled family member) don't know any disabled people.
90% of Britons have never had a disable ...

More than 50% of those surveyed in a recent poll felt that disabled people are not capable of making moral decisions, that they are child like and have a deviant personality. Disabled people were not, therefore, considered to be capable of assumin ...

A third of the 1,100 adults surveyed in a poll carried out by the charity Turning Point said that people with learning difficulties couldn't live independently or hold down jobs, while almost a quarter imagined they would be living in care homes. ...